290 stories by "Catherine Love"
Manchester is a city known and celebrated for its music. Honouring that musical heritage, the Royal Exchange Young Company " winner of
The gravity-defying feats of contemporary circus and the weightlessness of moving through water make a good match. As performers dive through the
Rituals of remembrance: Argentinian artist Lola Arias' exploration of the Falklands War comes to York.
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As Red Ladder celebrates its half-centenary, the Leeds-based company's artistic director and producer tell Catherine Love how the company has evolved while focusing
Class is often absent from discussions about diversity in theatre but it remains a barrier for audiences, actors and others in the industry. What's the solution?In 1979, giving a talk at Cam…
With his Frankenstein freshly brought to life at the Royal Exchange, the director and DJ tells Catherine Love why he's dug into
Circle Mirror Transformation is a drama of accumulation. Annie Baker's slow, delicate play deposits character layer by miniscule layer, like silt collecting
Liverpool EverymanThis smart version of the rarely performed Lerner and Loewe musical subverts the dodgy gender politicsLerner and Loewe's rarely performed Paint Your Wagon is synonymous wit…
Playwright and actor Amelia Bullmore has done everything from Brass Eye to Ayckbourn. She tells Catherine Love about returning to Manchester, where
Home, Manchester 19 micro-plays, crammed with detail, writhing with contradictions and set to the familiar pulse of Joy Division and the Smiths, try to distil the Mancunian essenceWhat defin…
York Theatre RoyalJuliet Forster's adaptation of stories by The Railway Children's author is cleverly designed and wittily challenges gender stereotypesYork Theatre Royal's pantomime " featu…
Few pantomimes command as much loyalty " from actors and from audiences " as the York Theatre Royal's festive offering. 2017 marks
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Technical trickery is cast aside for imaginative props made from bedsheets and suitcases, bringing the childlike wonder back to CS Lewis's frosty adventureThe…
The award-winning designer talks to Catherine Love about the challenges and thrills of turning the West Yorkshire Playhouse's Quarry stage into a
She has turned The Simpsons into a post-apocalyptic opera, invented her own language and put on a communist Dracula pageant. Now, the US playwright is staging the creepy, late-night TV class…
No future: Catherine Love reviews Chris Goode's furiously intelligent take on the punk movie classic.
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In James Fritz's powerful new drama, Parliament Square, an activist stands up and leaves us wondering how to take action in a broken worldJames Fritz's new play, Parliament Square, was writt…
Everyman, LiverpoolThe company's surreal and gleefully inventive adaptation transforms the Günter Grass novel into a riot of theatre, puppetry and musicGünter Grass's 1959 novel The Tin Dr…
It’s a familiar story: the decline of a great but flawed man. Ibsen’s The Master Builder is one in a long line
It's funny how plays morph over time. Aside from the new cast, Headlong's touring production of People, Places and Things is pretty
Thatcher's children: Catherine Love reviews a stage adaptation of Bernard Hare's Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew.
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'We have to stumble along the way and admit to our mistakes': Catherine Love reviews Testament's show about feminism and becoming a father.
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Thornton Wilder's 1938 play is a "giddily expansive" exploration of community and the passing of time.
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Catherine Love reviews Daniel Bye's new show about the "complex mix of complicity, complacency, fear and the desire to do something."
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Dunbar's bleakly funny tale of a menage a trois captured 80s austerity. What can her defiant heroines tell audiences today?'This is life," Andrea Dunbar told the Yorkshire Post in 1987, defe…
